New online resource trial

BABO (the Bibliography of Arabic Books Online) aims to become a comprehensive bibliographic database containing information about virtually all books published in Arabic before 1960, and then continuing up to the present. The bibliography will ultimately contain over 80,000 records and almost 35,000 unique name records.

We’ve got a free trial on it until the 2nd March 2011- so please check it out and tell us what you think of it! It’s quite an expensive resource, so we’d particularly value feedback.

New Books July 2010

Here’s our list of new books for July 2010. We’ve also started putting our new books into LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/oiloxford

This blog and our new LibraryThing entries will also both be fed into our new Twitter account, if you want to follow us there: https://twitter.com/oiloxford

BM176.F34 EAR 2009 Ref.
Nickelsburg, George W. E., 1934-
Early Judaism : text and documents on faith and piety, Rev. ed.
Fortress Press, 2009

BM176.J495 JEW 2009
Stern, Menahem
Jewish identities in antiquity : studies in memory of Menahem Stern
Mohr Siebeck, 2009

BP137.F54 FIG 2000
Aigle, Denise
Figures mythiques des mondes musulmans
Edisud, 2000

BP188.8.I53 SUF 2010 Ref.
Aquil, Raziuddin
Sufism and society in medieval India
Oxford University Press, 2010

BP189.R24 RAD 2009
Radtke, Bernd
Materialien zur alten islamischen Frommigkeit
Brill, 2009

BP80.S252 A3 SAL 2006
Salman, al-Farisi, d. ca. 656
From Esfahan to Madinah : Salman al-Farisi’s hadith
Goodword Books, 2006

BQ905.N2 A713 ASV 2007
Asvaghosa. Saundarananda. English & Sanskrit
Handsome Nanda, 1st ed.
New York University Press : JJC Foundation, 2007

BR65.J283 H6413 JAC 2009
Jacob, of Serug, 451-521. Homily on the Tower of Babel. English & Syriac
Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Tower of Babel, 1st Gorgias Press ed.
Gorgias Press, 2009

BS2545.J44 D66 DON 2010 Ref.
Donaldson, Terence L.
Jews and Anti-Judaism in the New Testament : decision points and divergent interpretations
SPCK Publishing ; Baylor University Press, 2010

BS2880.T5 M94 MYE 2010
Myers, Susan E.
Spirit epicleses in the Acts of Thomas
Mohr Siebeck, 2010

BS715 BIB 2004 Ref.
Bible. O.T. Deuteronomy. 2007
Eleh ha-devarim = Deuteronomy
Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2007

BS715 BIB 2004 Ref.
Bible. O.T. Proverbs. Hebrew. 2008
Mishle = Proverbs
Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2008

BV178.W55 WIL 2008
Williamson, H. G. M. (Hugh Godfrey Maturin), 1947-
Holy, holy, holy : the story of a liturgical formula
Walter de Gruyter, 2008

BX184.L4 M64 MOH 2008
Mohasseb Saliba, Sabine
Les monasteres maronites doubles du Liban : entre Rome et l’Empire ottoman (XVIIe-XIXe siecles)
Geuthner ; PUSEK, 2008

BX4713.563 C43 CHA 2008
Chahwan, N.
L’ordination diaconale dans l’Eglise Maronite
PUSEK, 2008

D13.5.I75 HIS 2009
Debie, Muriel
L’historiographie syriaque
Geuthner, 2009

DS117 BRE 2010 Ref.
Brenner, Michael, 1964- Kleine judische Geschichte. English
A short history of the Jews
Princeton University Press, 2010

DS231 ARA 2009
Schiettecatte, Jeremie
L’Arabie a la veille de l’Islam : bilan clinique : table ronde tenue au College de France, Paris, les 28 et 29 aout 2006 dans le cadre du projet de l’Agence nationale de la recherche “de l’antiquite tardive a l’Islam”
De Boccard, 2009

DS247.A185 MAI 2004
Maitra, Jayanti
Qasr al-Husn : tarikh hukkam Abu Zaby, 1793-1966, Tabah 3.
Markaz al-Wathaiq wa-al-Buhuth, 2004

DS59.S94 GAL 2010
Galletti, Mirella. Cristiani del Kurdistan. French
Le Kurdistan et ses chretiens
Cerf, 2010

DS99.D3 FAD 2010 Ref.
Fadel, Marie. Damaskus. English
Damascus : taste of a city
Haus, 2010

DT95.65 FAR2006
Farraj, Samir
al-Dawlah al-Ikhshidiyah
Markaz al-Rayah lil-Nashr wa-al-Ilam, 2006

DT96 IRW 2010 Ref.
Irwin, Robert, 1946-
Mamluks and Crusaders : men of the sword and men of the pen
Ashgate/Variorum, 2010

G93 QAZ 1984
Qazwini, Zakariya ibn Muhammad, 1208 or 9-1283 or 4
Athar al-bilad wa-akhbar al-ibad
Dar Bayrut, 1984

KBP310.K38 KAW 2005
Kawsaj, Ishaq ibn Mansur, d. 865 or 6
Kitab al-Masail an Imamay ahl al-hadith Ahmad ibn Hanbal wa-Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, al-Tabah 1.
al-Faruq al-Hadithah, 2005

KBP310.K38 KAW 2005
Kawsaj, Ishaq ibn Mansur, d. 865 or 6
Kitab al-Masail an Imamay ahl al-hadith Ahmad ibn Hanbal wa-Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, al-Tabah 1.
al-Faruq al-Hadithah, 2005

KBP310.K38 KAW 2005
Kawsaj, Ishaq ibn Mansur, d. 865 or 6
Kitab al-Masail an Imamay ahl al-hadith Ahmad ibn Hanbal wa-Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, al-Tabah 1.
al-Faruq al-Hadithah, 2005

PJ4576.B5513 BLA 2010
Blau, Joshua, 1919- Torat ha-hegeh veha-tsurot. English
Phonology and morphology of Biblical Hebrew : an introduction
Eisenbrauns, 2010

PJ6770.33.B47 BER 2005
Bergman, Elizabeth M.
Spoken Algerian Arabic
Dunwoody Press, 2005

PJ7542.D53 H37 HAS 2008
Hasan, Ghassan
al-Tughrudah al-Imaratiyah : dirasah ilmiyah fi fann al-tughrudah fi al-turath al-shabi al-Imarati, al-Tabah 1.
Hayat Abu Zaby lil-Thaqafah wa-al-Turath, Akadimiyat al-Shir, 2008

PJ7860.A28 I4 RAD 1962
Radwan, Fathi
Ilah raghma anfih: wa-tamthiliyat ukhra
Dar al-Maarif, 1962

PK3741.H6 E5 NAR 2007
Narayana. Hitopadesa. English & Sanskrit
Friendly advice, 1st ed.
New York University Press : JJC Foundation, 2007

PK3791.B198 R3813 BHA 2009
Bhanudatta Misra. Rasamanjari. English & Sanskrit
Bouquet of rasa ; &, River of rasa
New York University Press, 2009

PK3796.S4 V37 KAL 2006
Kalidasa. Sakuntala. English & Sanskrit
The recognition of Shakuntala
New York University Press : JJC Foundation, 2006

Z7052 BAB 1951 Fol.
Babani, Ismail Basha, d. 1920 or 21
Hadiyat al-arifin : asma al-muallifin wa-athar al-musannifin
Wikalat al-Maarif, 1951

Z7052 BAB 1951 Fol.
Babani, Ismail Basha, d. 1920 or 21
Hadiyat al-arifin : asma al-muallifin wa-athar al-musannifin
Wikalat al-Maarif, 1951

New Website Launched

The all-new re-vamped OIL website has been launched at http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/oil

Unlike our previous page, this one follows the same design as most of the other big Bodleian libraries. It has more information on useful e-resources, and following recent requests it also has a Recent Acquisitions List and a guide to the new Library of Congress classification.

Obviously the webpage is primarily there to help you, the readers. So if you have any suggestions on how to improve it, we’d love to hear from you!

Our book-move on Saturday was a success. We’ve managed to clear all the Islamic Religion (B and BP) books from the temporary shelving at the front of the library, and dismantled one row of temporary shelves, making the library feel much airier and less claustrophobic. We’ve also compacted our Islamic History collection (D, DS and DT), so it’s all down the right hand side of the library in a single sequence. We’ve still got lots of moving to be done over the next few months but we’ll do it in quiet periods to avoid impacting on our readers too much.

OIL 2.0

The Oriental Institute Library is currently on a big drive to update our web presence before the new academic year!

Dawn (Dawn Vaux, our Deputy Librarian who runs the library day-to-day) is working on making our main webpage at http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/oil a bit more exciting and up-to-date, whilst James (James Fishwick, Senior Library Assistant and book cataloguer) has created a blog at http://oiloxford.wordpress.com/ and a facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Oxford-United-Kingdom/Oriental-Institute-Library/137472003754.

It’s all very exciting!

James is planning on updating this blog at least once a week, with information on our current projects and any particularly exciting news. Thanks to the wonders of RSS, all the new blog entries will magically appear on our Facebook page as well… They can also be added to Livejournal friends pages, using http://syndicated.livejournal.com/oiloxford/

We’d particularly welcome feedback from our library users, and would love to know what you think we should be doing online to help you use the library- do you want online tours? Regular news? Photos of new books? Or do you have any other suggestions? 

If you’ve got anything to say feel free to comment on our blog or on the discussion at our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=10446&uid=137472003754, or get in contact with us using any of the info on our webpage http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/oil